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ArticleEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2025

Amalur EIS: a system for calculating the environmental impacts of industrial sites from E-PRTR records.

Iñaki Sasia, Gorka Bueno, Iker Etxano

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Article in Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Iñaki SasiaEKOPOL, Research Group On Ecological Economics and Political Ecology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Sarriena S/N, 48940, Leioa, Basque Country, Spain. jsasia001@ikasle.ehu.eus.
Gorka BuenoEKOPOL, Research Group On Ecological Economics and Political Ecology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Sarriena S/N, 48940, Leioa, Basque Country, Spain.
Iker EtxanoEKOPOL, Research Group On Ecological Economics and Political Ecology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Sarriena S/N, 48940, Leioa, Basque Country, Spain.

Funding

Department of Education of the Basque Government IT 1567-22 Ekopol Research Group (UPV/EHU)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article presents Amalur EIS ( https://www.amalur-eis.eus/ ), an Environmental Information System that estimates environmental impacts using data sourced from the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register database (E-PRTR). The system uses data on the releases into land, air and water of 31,556 European industrial facilities for the period 2007-2021. Amalur EIS calculates environmental impacts of industrial releases using 31 life cycle impact assessment methods (LCIA) and covering 78 of the 91 pollutants regulated by the PRTR Protocol. The system has been constructed using a two-layer software infrastructure: (i) a data layer supported by a relational database built in Postgres and (ii) a presentation layer built in Tableau, so it provides user-friendly access to the information. For an illustrative analysis of the tool, the EF 3.0 LCIA method recommended by the European Commission was used, including normalisation and weighting steps for a better comparison. The analysis concludes that the climate change impact category contributes the most (68.6%) to the total impacts, while the largest contributor from an economic activity perspective is the energy sector (59.5%). Geographically, both elements coincide in the German regions of Düsseldorf, Köln and Brandenburg, resulting in the concentration of the largest impacts at the European regional level. In fact, Germany is the country with the highest impact (20.3% of total). Beyond this analysis, Amalur EIS is poised to be a valuable tool for tracking the transition towards sustainability, particularly in Europe.

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Environmental MonitoringEnvironmental PollutantsEnvironmental PollutionIndustryClimate ChangeDatabases, FactualEuropeEnvironmental PollutantsAmalur EISEnvironmental impactIndustrial activityLCIAPRTR

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PMID39794678
PMCPMC11723853

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